Veleda

Hi all! It's been 2 months and a week since I got banded. I have no fill and have lost about 40 pounds. I was really sick for the first month and a half after surgery though and had to stay on liquids and mushies the whole time. That helped significantly. This last month i have been losing about 1-2 pounds a week which seems good to me. I'm not even exercising yet so feel i should do that before I get a fill. Part of me would like to continue to lose at the rate I did initially but.. I know that 1-2 pounds a week is average. If I wanted to lose more I could be eating healthier (i eat ok) and exercising every day.

Hey everyone! thanks for all the support. I'm giving it another week or two to see how things go. I still can't get down a Protein shake.. or anything but Clear liquids now at week 3. :: sigh ::

I asked my doctor about it being too tight and it was unfilled and he said it didn't look tight when he looked in the laproscopic diagnostic.

Hey all! I have had a pretty unfortunate time so far..so much that i'm contemplating getting the band removed at the earliest possible time. I don't know if this makes me a wuss.. I see so many people on the forums with stories of sleeping upright, throwing up every week, constant nausea, pain, etc.. that seem to put up with it in order to have the effect of the band.. but I don't now if I can handle that. The first week after my band wasn't so bad...I had a lot of general surgery pain but i seemed to be recuperating then about day 10, I started to feel really sick. i've had constant nausea, a lot of pain in my upper left side radiating out to my right shoulder, trouble getting anything down but coconut Water, esophegeal spasms, pbing on a few sips of water..much less anything else, an immense amount of gastric reflux which I've never had before, and feel like i've been run over by a truck. I have a good surgeon, they took me in and did a CT scan, an endoscopy, and a diagnostic laproscopy. They didn't find anything wrong. They say i should feel happy nothing was wrong only i'm pretty much incapable of doing anything..except sitting through the minutes feeling absolutely miserable. In reading the forums - some people seem to have these problems and somehow be ok with it..and I guess I'm wigging out that these are 'side effects' of the band and that i'm not really ok with them. Does everyone experience a lot of crappy awful side effects or are there people for whom this just works with pain, nausea, reflux, etc? I don't see myself as someone that is going to say ...i throw up every day but i lost 50 pounds so Yay its worth it. If i was i would have just chosen to be bulimic and avoided surgery. :: grin :: Seriously.. i've seen so many stories of people on the forum saying things like i have to sleep sitting up now..and that just seems absolutely unacceptable to me...so much so that i have an appointment with my doctor to discuss my desire to have my band removed. I've been wondering if i'm just one of those people that rolled the dice and got a lot of the side effects and should throw in the towel rather than spend the next fews of my life suffering to decide to throw in the towel. Maybe i'm band intolerant..i dunno. Maybe I'm not giving it enough time.. i don't want to be a wuss. I want to lose weight. I am willing to make lifestyle changes to do so..I'm just not willing to be miserable every day of my life in order to lose sixty to eighty pounds which is what i want to lose. I guess I'm writing to hear from other people.. Does everyone seem to be suffering from F* side effects (as it seems reading the forums)? Are there people that have been successful and had minimal to no side effects? Were you always that way or did you start out with a lot of issues? I am really regretting my decision right now and trying to figure out whether the band is for me after all. I spent two years contemplating the band and thought I was making a sound and reasoned decision based on my desire to improve my quality of life..I could use some thoughts, insights, stories, and ideas..

Hey all; I'm getting banded in July and am wondering how long it is possible to stay out on disability in 'recovery' for. I may be being laid off soon, and its to my advantage to be out as long as possible so I can stay under medical care and be covered by current insurance.

I'm getting banded July 1st. Just joined the forum. Hi everyone!